Incendiary Fires Set by Bozen in Chicago
In South Chicago, a string of fires yesterday and today caused about $70,000 in damage. Fires at St Patrick’s church Willard Sons & Bell forge works Washington Ice Co Calumet theatre and a four story feed store building destroyed multiple structures. Police and residents patrol streets seeking the incendiary amid heightened alarm.
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Chicago
St. Patrick's Church
Willard Sons & Bell
Washington Ice Co
Calumet Theatre
Nicholas Schroder
Plunder Galore in Unsuspected Ridgewood Residence
New York reports police uncover a two year haul at Geo T Howard’s Ridgewood New Jersey home. The married tea and coffee merchant, his wife, and their 10 year old son lived quietly while horses carriages and farm goods vanished across the region. The boy aided his father in hiding, while officers seized three wagon loads of loot from the 14 room house and stored the rest as the search continued.
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New York
Geo. T. Howard
Ridgewood
N J
Howard
Munsey
N. Y
Howard's Barn
Mrs. Howard
Mr. Howard
Jersey City
Rioters Awed as Force Suppresses Brussels Demonstrations
Brussels reports show police gendarmes and soldiers mobilized to curb disturbances. The central coal districts see continued strike spread while socialist leaders aim to keep workers at work until a planned Monday or Tuesday movement. Rioters align with anarchist factions within the demonstrations.
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Brussels
Arms Shipped to Colombian Insurgents from San Francisco
San Francisco wired that twenty five cases of munitions of war were sent to Colombian insurgents aboard the City of Sydney last Tuesday. The Colombian consul had learned from New Orleans that arms and ammunition were en route but did not disclose the shipment at the port. The writer appealed to the port collector for clarification.
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San Francisco
City of
Sydney
Colombia
New Orleans
Navy Port Faces Possible Trouble Over Arms Exports
The collector wired Washington and was told to prevent any violation of neutrality laws. Further shipments are expected and authorities at the port have been advised to intervene, so there may be trouble in getting arms on any outgoing steamer.
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Washington
Chicago Frenchmen to Erect a National Monument
Chicago officials report that the city’s French population will finalize plans for a $100,000 building to serve as a theatre lodge hall club house and gymnasium. The structure will be placed at the heart of the French colony near Notre Dame church after a meeting next Monday.
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Chicago
Boers Must Consult European Envoys on Peace
Utrecht April 12 Dr Leyds the Transvaal agent and Boer leaders held a long conference last night He said the meeting was not tied to the Klerksdorp conference but warned peace cannot be concluded without prior consultation with Boer representatives in Europe
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Utrecht
Holland
Leyds
Transvaal
Klerksdorp
Europe
Minneapolis Flour Mills Forced to Close
Chicago dispatch notes Minneapolis flour mills face forced shutdowns as mills align to May wheat premiums and weak flour demand. High freight rates and uncertain market prospects push half the mills to suspend operations indefinitely tonight.
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Minneapolis
Chicago
Chronicle
SAFE BLOWER ARRESTED IN CHICAGO AFTER ELOQUENT ESCAPE
Edward Kelly, an alleged diamond robber and safe blower, was arrested by Police Lieut. Edward McCann and Detective Patrick O'Brien after a chase through a building site near the Park Gate hotel. He is wanted in Hamilton, Ohio for a $10,000 diamond robbery and is linked to a $75,000 post office robbery. Authorities found a satchel with fuse and safe blowers caps in his hotel rooms.
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Chicago
Edward Kelly
Edward McCann
Patrick O'Brien
Kelly
McCann
O’brien
Park Gate Hotel
Hamilton
Ohio
Post Office
Wm. Summers
Minneapolis
Boston
St. Louis
Detroit
Chicago professor calls wedding ring relic of barbarism
In a University of Chicago anthropology class, Prof. Frederick Starr declares the wedding ring a useless relic of primitive culture. He likens it to a nose ring or manacle and questions its function in modern society. He also questions dress coats as relics, tracing them to hunting jackets of ancestors.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Frederick Starr
Starr
Shipley Missing Husband Sought by Reading Family
Mrs. Frank B. Shipley of Reading asks newspapers to help locate her husband who left Dec 22 and has not been heard from since. The missing man, a motorman, was seen in Manchester New Hampshire and in Reading in the weeks after leaving home. His absence has strained the ill mother and prompted plans for their children Mabel 16 to be sent to a school for feeble minded and Herbert 14 to be placed on a farm or in an institution.
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Frank B. Shipley
Reading
Mr. Shipley
Manchester
N. H
Maggio Released From Las Cruces Jail
Antonio Maggio, once jailed in Las Cruces on suspicion of knowing an anarchist plot against President McKinley, has been released. He reportedly predicted the president’s death months before the Buffalo shooting, and the case was dismissed at the request of the U.S. district attorney.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Antonio Maggio
Las Cruces
McKinley
Maggio
McAndrew
Opera Company
Buffalo
United States District Attorney
A New Trust Forms In Sash Door and Blind Trade
Forty five manufacturers and wholesale dealers in sash door and window blinds from Pittsburgh to the Rockies are forming a price scale plan. A meeting is set for next Thursday at the Auditorium hotel. The $12,000,000 capital involved signals a major industry consolidation.
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Chicago
Auditorium Hotel
Pittsburg
Rocky, Mountains
Famous Black Mare Imp To Be Sold At Auction
Chicago April 12 The famous black mare Imp owned by the Harness estate at Chillicothe Ohio is to be sold at auction as the estate is settled by the executor.
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Chicago
Chillicothe
Ohio
Dows Tonic Wine Cordial Endorsed for Languor Appetite Loss
For languor and loss of appetite use Dows Tonic Wine Cordial by A. W. Dows & Co. This vintage remedy is advertised as a restorative tonic to combat fatigue and restore vigor. The note emphasizes the product's curative claims and the manufacturer’s brand.
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Dows
A. W. Dows & Co
Equalized wages harden resolve of mill strikers
Providence April 12 new wage equalization by American Woolen Co. has stalled spread of textile strikes. Mills on strike see pay rises or stability while workers in other plants voice determination to stay out. Company officials forecast no further spread despite leaders vowing to keep workers out. Over 200 looms run in National mills and 500 in Olneyville as lockouts deepen tensions.
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Providence
R. I
American Woolen Co
Fulton Mills
Sawyer Mills
Dover
N. H
Vassalboro
Maynard
Lawrence
National
Olneyville
Washington
Cabinet Meets in London Amid Budgets and War Loan Talks
London reporters detail a cabinet council at the Foreign Office with Sir Michael Hicks Beach and Joseph Chamberlain as Bank of England officials press discussions on a war loan. Chamberlain denies a cabinet crisis while public interest stays calm and rumors on Irish policy and Boer terms surface.
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London
Michael Hicks Beach
Joseph Chamberlain
Foreign Office
Bank of England
Mr. Chamberlain
Michael Hicks- Beach
Chamberlain
Downing Street
Ireland
Earl Cadogan
United Irish League
Tne
Supreme Court
Black Hair Ayer's Hair Vigor Restores Gray Hair
Ayer Co. promises fifty years of restoring color to gray hair and preventing hair loss. The Lowell Massachusetts based product line is offered for $1 by all éreggists and the J. C. Ayer Co. name.
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Ayer
J.C. Ayer CO
Lowell, Mass
Colombian rebels seize American launch at Bocas del Toro
News from Bo cas del Toro says Colombian insurgents captured an American steam launch owned by Krosman Braden & Co. One crew member was killed and dumped overboard. Rebels planned to seize launches for troop transport as a US cruiser heads to recover the prize. The Taunton brought the report to port in New Orleans.
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Chicago
the Tribune
New Orleans
Bocas del Toro
United States
Taunton
United Fruit Company
Bocas
Krosman, Braden & Co
Incapable of Crime Elkins to be released after 12 years
Des Moines reports 11 year old John Wesley Elkins confessed to murdering his father and stepmother. He will be freed from Anamosa prison after 12 years amid debate in the Iowa Senate over legality since under 14 is presumed incapable of crime. He gained education during confinement following alleged excessive punishment.
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Des Moines
John Wesley Elkins
Anamosa
State Senate
Elkins
Will of Col John McKee Willed to Charities
Philadelphia April 12 steps were taken by the children of the late Col John McKee a colored millionaire real estate dealer to prevent the registration of his will. The will disclosed yesterday leaves the bulk of a 2 000 000 estate to charitable uses under Archbishop Ryam and Roman Catholic clergy. Next of kin are cut off with a pittance.
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Philadelphia
John McKee
McKee
Presbyterian Church
Ryam
Citizens committee to meet Textile council on Tuesday
The citizens' committee appointed to press for higher wages for cotton operatives will meet the conference committee of the Textile council at city hall on Tuesday night. A sub-committee report on treasurers in Boston was adopted but not made public.
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Citizens’ Committee
Textile Council
City Hall
Boston
Wells's Millions Disposed In Wisconsin Will
Chicago dispatch reports Daniel Wells left an estate valued between 16 and 20 million dollars. Six local charities receive 6000 dollars in bequests. The remainder is placed in trust for his daughter Mrs Charles Norris and her son, plus the descendants of his four sisters and friends Isaac Stephenson and Horace Upham.
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Chicago
Daniel Wells
Tribune
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Charles Norris
Isaac Stephenson
Marinette
Horace A. J. Upham
Hoopeston Land and Cattle Association Forms in Maine
Charles A. Allen of Hoopeston and Vermilion County capitalists organize The Hoopeston Land and Cattle association in Maine. The company will operate 57,000 acres in Cuba valued at 500,000 and plans to raise mules for Cuban plantations.
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Chicago
Charles A. Allen
Hoopeston
Illinois General Assembly
Vermilion County
The
Chronicle
Maine
Hoopeston Land and Cattle Association
Cuba
Bissert Granted New Trial by Appellate Court
New York April 12 The appellate division of the supreme court yesterday granted a new trial to George Bissert the former Wardman who was convicted on the charge of taking a bribe from the keeper of a disorderly house.
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New York
Appellate Division
The
Supreme Court
George Bissert
Fire in transport Sherman holds fire under control
A fire broke out in the hold of the transport Sherman in San Francisco at dawn. It was quickly suppressed with nominal damage. The blaze is attributed to spontaneous combustion.
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San Francisco
Sherman
Casey Held For Assault In Pool Hall Case
George W. Casey was ordered to the grand jury by Judge Hadley in the police court after a hearing on assault with a dangerous weapon upon John L. Dupuis. Dupuis had a fractured skull and bandaged head. witnesses described blows with a cue during a Feb. 22 pool game at the S.C.W. rooms. The judge expressed anger at interruptions and set bail at 500 dollars, with further actions pending after grand jury review.
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George W. Casey
Hadley
John L. Dupuis
C. W
Clarence Tinker
George Casey
Billie Dodge
Tinker
Casy
Casey
Hoyle
Welch
Clarence C. Tinker
Mr. Dupuis
Dupuis
William H. Dodge
J. W. Meigs
Mahoney
St. John's Hospital
Dodge
S.C. W
John
Pickman
Burke & Corbett
Savage Assault Near Peter Statute's Fruit Store
James Allen lies unconscious at his Eliot street room after an early morning assault on Middlesex street. Joseph Seymour, held by police on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, allegedly struck Allen with a piece of iron in front of Peter Statute's fruit store. Dr. Marston cautions that recovery is uncertain for a day or two.
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James Allen
Eliot Street
Joseph Seymour
Peter Statute
Middlesex Street
Seymour
Allen
Marston
Lowell Overseers Face Wrath Over Corruption Claims
Overseers of the poor vent anger at Lowell men who testified before the Legislature supporting the bill to abolish the Lowell board. Reports say a claimant will be summoned to appear before the overseers to sustain the charge of corruption.
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Lowell
Lowell Board
Ciarg
Fire at 20 Middlesex Street Harbors Fire Threat to Clothing Stock
An alarm from box 24 today reported a fire at 20 Middlesex Street in the Howe block. E. D. Shadduck's clothing store, located in this block, saw the fire start in the cellar and threaten stock before the blaze was extinguished.
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Middlesex Street
Howe Block
E. D. Shadduck
Shadduck
Westinghouse to donate lab building for St Pauls School
Mr. George Westinghouse of Pittsburgh has announced plans to present a new building to St Pauls School in Concord New York to house a physical and chemical laboratory. Plans are being drawn and a site chosen opposite the Sheldon library.
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Concord
N. Y
George Westinghouse
Pittsburg
St. Paul's School
Sheldon Library
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Depuis
Charles Golding
Jean de Reszke
South Street
Charles
John Miller
Samuel Scott
Central Street
Mr. Scott
Scott
Andy
Miller
Arthur Levesque
Louis
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